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| | The "historical turn" in the philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s gave most of its attention to the development of the physical sciences -- especially physics itself. (See Tom Nickles' essay "Historicist Theories of Scientific Rationality" in theStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophyfor a detailed account of this development in the philosophy of science;link.) Historian-philosophers...
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| | Thought experiment - imagine an alien race came to earth. They were smarter than us in every way. Having absorbed all written word, they could communicate perfectly in every human language. They were intimately familiar with our private lives, through access to our phone and online data. These aliens had lots of amazing new ideas...
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| | It was pointed out to me recently that the homeopathy looks more like a religious community than a scientific one. Yet many homeopaths and their apologists say that they represent a new scientific or medical paradigm; implicit in this claim is that their community is scientific. Examining thisquestion gives me the chance to talk about...
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| A new thought experiment indicates that quantum mechanics doesn't work without strange numbers that turn negative when squared.